Outcome-based health equity across different social health insurance schemes for the elderly in China

Table 3 Comparison of group means of health outcome among different types of health insurance schemes

	Self-reported health status^a		Physical functions^a		Psychological well-being^a
	2006	2010	2006	2010	2006	2010
UEBMI^b	3.1	3.1	39.42	38.58	26.21	29.88
URBMI	——	2.89*	——	36.61*	——	24.92*
NCMS	2.96*	2.89*	37.88*	37.13*	25.39	26.22*
Uninsured	2.88*	2.91*	37.12*	36.58*	21.82*	24.65*
Total^c	2.98***	2.97***	38.09***	37.62***	25.17	27.47***
Relative ratio
UEBMI	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
URBMI	——	1.07	——	1.05	——	1.20
NCMS	1.05	1.07	1.04	1.04	1.03	1.14
Uninsured	1.08	1.07	1.06	1.05	1.20	1.21

^aSelf-reported health status is measured by a five-point Likert-Scale, while the range of the physical functions scale and the psychological well-being scale are 0–48 and 0–27 respectively. Higher value means better health status in all of above three dimensions of health outcome
^bIn the Post Hot Tests, this table only presented the significant level of difference in each two groups’ means if taking UEBMI as a reference; * the mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level
^c***p < 0.001, at least one group was different in its means of health outcome with that in other groups

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